I shall squish you and you shall be mine!

As promised pics from the little babies. The second shows actually the two I get (out of three).
I want to squish those! I'm already "weee!"ing every time I look at the pics. 6 more weeks to go till they can start destroying the appartement >_<
and I still have no idea who's a tomcat and who's a girl.
Up from the pics I stick to grey-male, red-female but normally it's vici-versa.

What do you think? Male, female?

How much costs 1 hour of your life?

I started a poll on Deviantart which is quite interesting for me and maybe also for others.

How much would you pay for a commission (you can still vote here )?

First of all: I usually take commissions but only if I:

1. can do it (realistically spoken, when somebody requests a human character OR a whole city concept I rather say: "Better go to person XY..." ... yes, I am one of those lazy butts who don't take every offer).

2. it's interesting (ever did something that bored you a lot? ... see... )

3. the settled price is reasonable

4. of course... if I have time. It doesn't make sense if you're loaded with work and are not able to finish anything (which is why I canceled one children's book yesterday... crap, crap, crap!)

which leads me to the result of the poll....

631 deviants said i never requested commissions and never will

546 deviants said 11-25 dollar

478 deviants said 1-10 dollar

251 deviants said 26-50 dollar

92 deviants said 50- 100 dollar

23 deviants said over 250

20 deviants said over 100

As you can see a lot of people won't commish something rather *okay* paid. I won't say nobody should work for 10 bucks but the 10 bucks include a lot of hours -probably- and I wonder who acutally DOES work for that. 

Positive: 2041 people WOULD consider paying for an illustration which is more than I even considered. The 631 stated (sometimes) that they draw on their own or simply can't afford it OR aren't  interested in commissions at all.

What do you think? Does it reflect the normal habit of people?

why the title? Because some people honestly think that work can be done in 2-3 hours (which is kinda... silly) and I always say: " You actually pay for x hours of their lives... so how much is this person worth?" I guess nobody wants to be worth 10 bucks (even if the Dollar-Euro conversion is better atm. Thanks to Greece :D -> it *does* have some good points for me...).

Anne

Jellydance

huh... neon!

Feel like i have ants in my pants... I keep staring on my phone waiting for a phone call from my publisher. Argggg.... arggg! Argg! Cross your fingers for me.

I really wanted to post the "adventures of having a broken car in the middle of nowhere on a Saturday" but I guess the title says all...

Confuzzle

unfinished because I am not that patient today and because fur needs ages and because I already regret choosing a detailed fur... rahhh

adding nose and eyes...

adding details to the eye for a less creepy look...

starting with fur... zommmg...

... for those who wonder, it's the nasty hair brush from this pack. (be aware of the possibilty that your computer dies every ten seconds while using those...)

... and because I am close to kill the critter (lack of patience on my side) I stop now and hope I finish it next week....

Sleepyhead

I really should do cleaner sketches... digitally. o_o hnnn

and the color sketch....

Honey, we gonna be parents! Soon!

... yesterday after work I got a phone call from my mum. I've been waiting for that special one for MONTHS.
Standing next to ugly shirts in an overcrowded store those news made my day.

So I rushed home and called Ty -too excited to wait.
"Ty, we gonna be parents soon. One baby has grey hair and the other one looks like a caramel candy!"
"Uh... "
"The CATS. I got phoned that the baby kittehs are one week old!"
"Ah.. cats!"

Omg! Kiki died in December and after 16 years *with* cat I am kinda scared how it is with two cats in an appartement. Baby cats! I never really thought about all the stuff you have to think of since I got Kiki when I was 8 and with 8 you don't really care about all those things you have to think of as a grown up.

In 7 weeks we will pick those little critters up and hopefully everything will be okay. Of course that means a lot of photos of little baby cats with totally dumb comments like "Aww, look at the tongue!" ("ten seconds before she bit meeee....")
I don't even know if it's gonna be two girls, one boy and one girl or two boys. We really wanted two girls but I guess some higher powers won't grant my wish which leads me to the other wish that the boy will be gay O_o

I already had two girl's names: Trunchi and Tretel (Tretel means "Treadle" like in milk treading) based on "Hansel and Gretel". When I said we might gonna have one or two boys Ty literally screamed: "Sir Ritchfield!" into the phone.
Sir Ritchfiled is a character of "Three Bags Full" ("Glennkill") and it's connected to a series of jokes we had for ages. So one might end up being called Sir Ritchfield. I hope we don't have to explain the name since the explanation will be totally ridiculous and stupid.

And now cross your fingers that everything works out fine and no drama happens and we gonna get those little "real life chubbies" in seven weeks.

Weee!

Flashcat- inking for nerds

Inking can be pretty annoying. And even more if you need those lines shiny perfect for a huge image. It might not happen that often but ink+ eps-option= whoazzaaaa!!!
The stalker kitteh was inked in FLASH. Some people might scream: Ewww! But trust me if you have some pratice it's fine. I used it for my magazine work and a lot graphics for the agency and I will use it as often as possible.
---> click here to see which tool to use <----

Take the brush and click on "Use Pressure" (bottom). This is important to... well, actually *use* the pressure sensitive pen of a graphic tablet (without a gt the whole thing is pretty useless).

Flash might be a bit tricky and sometimes it cuts away lines but you always have a strg+z and that should do.

Cheers!